Chapter 3

Syldeit

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Mom came back after an hour of gathering Blue Orchids. And when I look at her mp, it was reduced by 1000. So I'm guessing that I'll be fine to stay at library for long.

The day ended so fast and I just spent most of my time watching my mom make milk extract using the Blue Orchids. It function the same as milk powder in Earth, you just have to mix it with water then it's ready. The only difference is the extract from Blue Orchids is liquid.

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"Goodnight, sweetie." Mom bid me goodnight and kisses my cheek before she and dad went out and head to their own room.

They let me sleep at different room just last month. It works best for me since I'll have to sneak out everynight from now on. Hurray for the flying magic!

"✻ ✻ ✻ ✻ ✻, Flight." I utter the chant that I've memorized when mom used it this morning.

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What? Why nothing's happening? I made sure that I utter it exactly as my mom did, it's impossible to fail since it comes from my Perfect Memory skill.

Even if I made a mistake about the chant, I should still feel something, right? Where did I go wron--- Oof, dang. It's the magic!

Ever since coming to this world, I've never use nor felt them yet!

I took a deep breath and concentrate on my own body. According to what I've read in Mangas and Light novels, mana is supposed to be flowing inside our body like blood.

I closed my eyes and feel the blood flowing ng my body, this is how mana should flow, I guess.

Wha-, this is it! I felt something warm flowing in my whole body after I traced how my blood should flow. But unlike blood, you can definitely feel the mana circulating in your own body.

I let out a small amount of mana before chanting the chant for flight magic. "✻ ✻ ✻ ✻ ✻, Flight."

"Uwah!" I let out a small shriek when my body suddenly float. Am I really floating right now? I ask myself before flying around the room. So cool!

As I float around the room, I look at the shelves here. As soon as mom figured out that I like reading, she asked dad to make a mini bookshelf and she fill it up with children's book. I actually red those books because I want to learn how to read their language but those books are quite interesting.

After scanning the shelf, I went to the door and opened it. Good thing they haven't consider that I would sneak out so it's not locked.

I manipulated the air to bring me downstairs since our library is there. Mom sometimes tour me around the house so I know it's location. I just hope that it wasn't like my room.

"Yes!" I exclaimed after I opened the door so I immediately covered my mouth. Did they heard that? I hope not. But my wish got denied when I heard my parent's voice and footsteps.

"Do you really think someone would be here? There's only monsters around us, Avi." I heard my mom said before yawning.

"Of course, I'm sure. Do you really think my ears would betray me? We would be dead by now if it does." Dad explained.

"I can't argue with that but are you sure it's a human's voice? You know that no one's brave enough to come here. It might be monsters, but on the other hand, my barrier didn't get broken nor it says that they entered."

"That's why we have to check it, go and check if Via's awake. I'll go downstairs and see if someone is there."

Oh no! Mom will realize that I'm not in my room! I I put the pillow as a decoy but I'm sure she'll realize that it's not me! What to do?!

I'm panicking right now but I made sure to hide under the chair. Thanks to my baby build, I was able to fit here.

I covered my mouth when I saw my dad's feet. Will he spot me here? He wouldn't think that an intruder will hide and fit under a chair, right?

But all my prayers have been ignored when dad took the chair and look at me with confuse eyes. "Via?" Then suddenly, mom rushes down with a pillow in her hand (my decoy) while looking like a mess. Dad's eyes was diverted to her for a moment. I was about to use that 5 seconds to run but my dad hold my hand.

"Avi! Via is missi---" My mom couldn't finish what she said when she saw me in my dad's arm. "Via!" Mom shouted and took me from dad and hugged me tight.

"Can't, breathe." I tried saying while being squeezed by mom's breast and her arms. This is not how you supposed to hug an 11 m/o infant, right?

"Claire, calm yourself, Via can't breathe."

"Oh my, I'm sorry, baby." She apologized while wiping the sweat on my face. It's true, breast can kill!

"But what are you doing here at this hour?" She asked. Uh-oh, I'm dead? How should I explain that her 11 m/o baby is sneaking at night to read some book?

"Read, book, library." I said in broken words. Will they get angry? Or scared because a baby wants to read books? Ah, this pressure is going to kill me! >_<

"Kyaaaaaahh!" O_O I was shocked when my screeched. "Our baby is a genius!" No? It's because I have my past life's memory. I peek at my dad while mom is celebrating but he looks kinda defeated? What's going on? "See, Avi? Via is gonna be a mage, like me!" Eh?

My dad sighed, "alright, alright. I guess we just have to make another one that might be interested in carrying my swordsmanship!" My dad looks really proud when he said that! But isn't a child between human and elf is rare? Well, we can say they are exemption because they had me? But wait! I didn't say I don't want to learn swordsmanship! I chose to be an Elf because I want to master both of them, I have enough time!

"Via, want, learn, sword, magic." Argh, how old can a baby speak properly? My broken language is killing me.

"Really?! Then we should train first thing in the morning!" Dad immediately grab me and say those words. Geh, looks like he's more doting parent than mom. But after he said those mom whack his head.

"Via can't even stand at the moment! Wait until she turns five! In the meantime, we'll spent those 4 years in teaching you magic."

"That's not fair!" Dad retorted but he just received a glare from mom before he backs away.

Uh, it looks like I'm not gonna be punished from sneaking? Hehehe.

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So, 9 years have passed since that day at the library and I'm already 10 years old!

Just like what mom said, I spent 4 years practicing magic. Although it only took me a year to learn the spells of all magic that my mom knows. Hooray for Perfect Memory! I just spent 3 years for balancing and honing my mana and increasing it. Mom is also sulking when I finished learning her magic within a year when it took her a long time. I just comforted her by saying its because I have an excellent teacher.

I spent another 5 years practicing sword and martial art. This one is the hardest part for me because even if I have Perfect Memory to memorize the moves, my body don't cooperate with me. It seems like Elves have fragile body so it took us awhile before I managed to strengthen my body. But worry not! After spending 3 years in strengthening and learning the basics and another 2 years for training my skills, I can finally stand a chance to my father. Mom and dad are happy to see me learning fast (although their pride as a pro was hurt).

And now, I'm finally 10 years old and I can do some leveling now! It took me a month before I convinced my mom and dad to let me level alone though. It seems like the Great Forest of Syldeit has a many high leveled monsters. We only live in corner of it where my parents can handle the monsters but as you go near the center of the forest, the stronger the monsters is.

300 years ago, this great forest is a flourishing Kingdom of Syldeit. Thanks to the number of dungeons here, many adventurers and merchants come here, especially since it's surrounded by 3 kingdoms. But the dungeon also caused it's destruction.

A dungeon appeared just outside the capital. Even without going inside, they can feel the miasma inside the dungeon. When the king realizes the danger of the dungeon, he hired many Class A and S adventurers and also hired some Elves to conquer the dungeon immediately.

When a dungeon appears, its a common knowledge to conquer it within a month or else, monsters will overflow. Monsters inside the dungeons will disappear once it's killed, leaving only their drops in contrast to monsters outside the dungeons. Monsters outside the dungeon don't disappear, its just like an animal and only leave it's body.

Back to the story, the hired adventurers and elves tried to conquer the dungeon before the dungeon core spawn too many monsters. But the difficulty of the dungeon is too high. The hired individuals only managed to get to the center of the dungeon before they die.

A week before the 'Dungeon Crisis' the king lost all the hope and ordered the capital to flee and move. When the Dungeon Crisis begun, it only took a week before the the capital turned into a wasteland where dangerous monsters roamed.

Years later, the whole kingdom of Syldeit became a wasteland. It's citizen fled and migrated to the surrounding kingdoms. Fortunately, the dungeon can only reach its influence in Syldeit and other kingdom was spared.

After a century, the whole Kingdom was covered with big trees and plants and strong monsters. Later on, the flourishing kingdom of Syldeit became the Great Forest of Syldeit wherein it was impossible for a human to live. While the dungeon that caused this was named 'Dungeon of Death' as it kills thousand of people.

This story has become a fairy tale that every one knows. "If you do anything bad, we'll throw you in the Great Forest of Syldeit." This phrase is commobly used by parents to scare their children so they won't do anything bad.

It was also known that the former castle of the kingdom holds a great treasure that anyone can ever dreamed of. Because of this, many adventurers tried to go here despite the fact that it has high leveled monsters but none of them even set foot at the capital.

Even my parents can't reach halfway to the capital. So it's no wonder that my parents would not agree to let me roam alone here. But I can't test my skills and go all out if they are watching. And thanks to my persuasion, I managed to get their approval.

"✻ Mana Perception." This is the spell I've managed to create after learning magic. Learning magic made me aware of my surrounding's mana. It seems like everything in this world contains mana, even the air. And this spell allowed me to see everything around me even without using my eyes. Plus, the scope of my spell is 100km radius around me, even greater than my skill!

"Found yah'." I said as I saw a dungeon 67km away from our home. I took a deep breath and look at my parents before stepping up outside of my mom's barrier. It's time for some level up.

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Via's current status:

Name: Aulivia

Race: Elf

Age: 10 y/o

Level: 1

Class: --

Title: Reincarnator

HP: 2600/2600

MP: 31000/31000

SP: 5210/5230

Total Skill Points: 0

Skills:

Appraisal S

Perfect Memory S

Storage S

Status S

Drop rate S

Exp gain S

Magic (Affinity):

Fire magic

Water magic

Wind magic

Earth magic

Lightning magic

Wood magic

Light magic

Dark magic

Space magic